How to format your references using the Cor et Vasa citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cor et Vasa. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

P.K. Kuhl, Neuroscience. Who’s talking?, Science. 333 (2011) 529–530.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

V. Smetacek, S. Nicol, Polar ocean ecosystems in a changing world, Nature. 437 (2005) 362–368.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.J. Wiser, N. Ribeck, R.E. Lenski, Long-term dynamics of adaptation in asexual populations, Science. 342 (2013) 1364–1367.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Zhang, X. Chen, J. Wang, W. Guang, W. Han, H. Zhang, X. Tan, Y. Gu, EGR1 decreases the malignancy of human non-small cell lung carcinoma by regulating KRT18 expression, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5416.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

R.R. Crichton, R.J. Ward, Metal-based Neurodegeneration, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

D.S. Wheeler, H.R. Wong, T.P. Shanley, eds., The Central Nervous System in Pediatric Critical Illness and Injury, Springer, London, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Maricau, G. Gielen, Analog IC Reliability Simulation, in: G. Gielen (Ed.), Analog IC Reliability in Nanometer CMOS, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 93–149.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cor et Vasa.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, From Tiger To Free-Range Parents – What Research Says About Pros And Cons Of Popular Parenting Styles, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/tiger-free-range-parents-what-research-says-about-pros-and-cons-popular-parenting/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Data Center Optimization: Agencies Need to Complete Plans to Address Inconsistencies in Reported Savings, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Kantar, Clinical judgment among new nursing graduates: A multiple-case study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

J. Eligon, J. Martin, Kansas Republican Survives Tight Congressional Race to Win House Seat, New York Times. (2017) A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Cor et Vasa
Abbreviation	Cor Vasa
ISSN (print)	0010-8650
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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